Fishing near Hollis in Hillsborough County, NH

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Common Carp, Sunfish
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 189
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 484
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Little Larry near Hollis

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Top Fishing Spots near Hollis

Flints Pond
Flints Pond

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Rocky Pond
Rocky Pond

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Pennichuck Pond
Pennichuck Pond

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111 & 111a Junct Bridge
111 & 111a Junct Bridge

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Round Pond
Round Pond

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Stump Pond
Stump Pond

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Hollis Area Fish Species

Recent Hollis Fishing Reports

Flints pond Hollis NH Fishing Report Sep 12, 2010

Flints pond Hollis NH

Flints Pond Hollis NH -

6-10am 12 Bass and countless pickeral...

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Nashua River Fishing Report Feb 29, 2012

Nashua River

Nashua River -

Just past the bridge on 111 in Hollis. Ample parking. Take time to walk down the path to the little cove and fish anywhere you can cast on your way ...

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Weekend Reprive Fishing Report May 27, 2013

Weekend Reprive

Nashua River - Nashua, NH -

The failed fishing trip started to get to me... I had to get a line in before the holiday weekend was over.
So an evening trip to the Nashua River ...

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Scratch That Itch! Fishing Report May 02, 2014

Scratch That Itch!

Nashua River/Jackson Dam - Nashua, NH -

It may not have been my first outing of the season, but, it was my first catch of the year that wasn't a Bluegill or Fallfish.
Bright sunny day...

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Mill Pond-Evening 6-8pm Fishing Report Aug 07, 2010

Mill Pond-Evening 6-8pm

Mill Pond Nashua NH -

Skunked again, had something large but line snapped 3 feet from landing....

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Nissitissit River Wandering Fishing Report Mar 22, 2012

Nissitissit River Wandering

Nissitissit River - Brookline -

We parked alongside the ballpark on Oak Hill Rd and initially wanted to fish downstream of the bridge at the end of Bohanon Bridge Rd (I would assume ...

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Baits and Tackle used near Hollis

Check Prices

  • mepps lure
  • Rooster Tail
  • live worms and random lures any thing will work i have even caught bass here with gummy worms lol
  • Try rubber worms and I like Topwaters
  • plastics
  • Look for the ramp, it a little one!
  • fished meal worms, night crawlers off the bottom
  • mepps
  • mepps lure agila
  • tiki worms

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Caught Hornpout with Hard dog food on a hook
  • Bobber & Shiner.
  • A "well seasoned" dead Shiner, sent to the bottom.
  • A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.
  • used live nightcrawlers and Power bait
    Yellow
    Sherbert

Creature Check Prices

  • all 6 Pickerel were btween 16in and 10in, 4 on Creature Bait, and 2 on Jerkbait
  • My 2 Bass were:
    14in 1lb 2oz
    12.5in 13oz
  • Jigs, Shakyheads with worms or jig trailers, creature baits
  • Orange Pumpkin Yama creature... my go-to soft plastic
  • Mixed it up every half hour, the Hog was caught on a pumpkin creature with black flake, but both the black with red flake and watermelon with black flake were effective.

Tube Check Prices

  • T-rigged Pearl Damiki Hydra
    White Ice Zoom Small tube
    White Super Fluke Jr drop-shot
  • minitube flourescent
  • june bug tube
  • pumpkin seed tube

Minnow Check Prices

  • We used live Arkansas Shiners with Bobbers
  • Shine on and dropped.
  • pinners
  • We used Arkansas Shiners and couldn't even get a bite over a 2 1/2 to 3 hour period!
  • Live Shiner
  • Live Minnows
  • Live minnows
  • Live minnow
  • Both on live minnows and panfish jigs
  • Large shiners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • 3 inch floating Blue & White Rappala
  • rebel pop-r
  • heddon crazy crawler
  • jitterbug
  • rebel popr
  • frogs, spinners, and buzz bait
  • Frog...we also caught em on the jig here too
  • FROG

Lizard Check Prices

  • Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.
  • Fish back right of the pond
  • Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • 4.5in Slug-Go

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Spinner Baits
    Jigs (Texas Rig)
  • red
  • Chartuese w/ Green
  • Green with one blade. 1/2 oz.
  • not having any luck with the bass I decided to try for trout and caught a smallmouth instead
  • tandem colorado firetiger spinnerbait
  • Spinner
    Blue-fox
    Yellow
  • I also caught a Calico Bass at this site as well.
  • Fire Tiger, Double Willow
  • strike king 3/8 oz spinner

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Ribbit frog
  • Ribbit Frog pulled slowly across the service.
  • Frogs, Jigs and texas rigged creatures did the damage
  • Cast a rubber from rigged weedless into cover and retrieve using a methodical twitching to simulate a frog swimming. When frog reached end of cover let sink for a couple of seconds before continuing twitching retrieve.
  • Swimming the frog through the pads

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • gary yamamoto senko black with silver flakes.
  • powerbait nuggets
  • Trolling main channel
  • 5" Yamamoto green
    1/4 oz Crankbait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • 1/4 ounce
  • Size 1 Mepps Agila, Silver blade
  • Gold Vibrafox #2
  • Try casting farther out with a small spinner for pickerel
  • Aglia spinner, bronze body, silver flash
  • Aglia spinner with bronze body, silver flash
  • Caught many fish here over the years on many different baits but the spinners seem to work best
  • White Rooster Tail
  • Asortment of spinners.
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • shad darts

Terrestrial Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • purple and pink rubber worm, pumkinseed rubber worm
  • "pumkinseed" 7inch rubber worm
  • let worm sink, then retrieve slow and steady
  • They liked the brighter green ones.
  • Sadly my only Bass of the day, and it was to small
  • Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook.
  • Silver/Copper 2-way spinner hook.
  • Bronze 2-way spinner hook, size #4
  • Neon yellow 2-way spinner hook.
  • Bronze 2-way spinner hook.

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Zoom - Watermelon Seed Fishies - "Bass love 'em"
  • Black worm with bright yellow tail
  • Rubber Crawdads, Carolina rigged. The kids switched over to use live bait (night crawlers) about halfway through the trip.
  • yum 5" monny minnows white
  • Strike King KVD Paddle Tail Swimbait - Silver belly, blue back with glitter specks.
  • lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Dropshot
  • Senko and Dropshot
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Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Bronze 2-Way spinner hook and a Nightcrawler.
  • Bronze 2-Way spinner hook & trout worm.
  • Bronze, Silver/Copper & Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hooks with trout worms.
  • Florescent Yellow 2-Way spinner hook and a trout worm.
  • Rubber worms frogs,spinners
    All worked
  • senkos
  • mepps
  • mepps #2
  • sluggos
  • mepps #3 trebble hook

Craw Check Prices

  • Strike King Rage Tail Rage Craw. June Bug Blue.
  • Weighted Texas rigged soft craw
  • Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.
  • Yum black/blue craw

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • repala 2 1/2" frog countdown
  • Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
  • trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Silver-Chartreuse-Red Shiner.
  • purple/red metallic deep diving crankbait. rattles
  • Caught one on a small shiner-type and the other on a bright silver and yellow.
  • KVD 1.5 Chartruese/black back
  • Same details as Bass 1
  • Red in color, mimic swimming crawdad, pop,pop,pop, stop wait, pop,pop,pop, stop wait
  • Same as Bass 1
  • Pro model strike king 6xd sexy shad. # 2 mustad triple grip ultra point treble hooks, 7' mojo bass- st.croix-crank rod, Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb, revo sx 6.4.1 baitcaster.
  • rapala wounded minnow
  • Shiners are cheating here...
    Have to use your shallow swimmer crank bait.

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Strike King KVD Swim Jig in Bluegill with Rage Tail chunk or Chigger Chunk trailer.

    Zoom White Pearl Super Fluke
  • Black n blue jig n pig
  • 5/16 greenpumpkin bitsyjig w/ greenpumpkin rage chunk. Slowly dragged over rocks
  • pumpkin
  • Crawfish style.
  • Pumpkin jig with pumpkin worm trailer.
  • 3lb 4oz
    A couple 3lbers
    A couple 2-3/4blers
    Half a dozen 2-1/2lbers
    A dozen 2lbers
    ...so many fish! I lost count!
  • brown
  • Boag Hog black/blue with a blue trailer
  • black and blue with blue craw trailer

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Senko wacky rig and soft plastic swim baits
  • white
  • Dropshot 12" leader , 1/4 oz weight, with various 3" baits
  • 4" BkBl senko texas rigged on 3/0 Gami hook
  • Green/silver belly shad. 5/0 hook rigged weedless. Thrown into cover, dragged to the edge of cover and allowed to fall - strike typically occurred while bait was falling.
  • KVD Caffeine Shad paddletail swimbait.
  • Reaction Innovations
    4.5" Little Dipper
  • Berkeley GULP!

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • Wolly Bugger tied onto spinning tackle, with bobber
  • Wolly Bugger

Lake Pattern Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Neon Yellow 2-Way Spinner Hook
  • Brass 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Neon green 2-way spinner hook.
  • Just a crawler on a 0/1 baitholder hook, sent to the bottom.
  • Just a crawler on a 0/1 baitholder hook sent to the bottom.
  • Silver/Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook
  • Bronze 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  • Worm + Hook + Bottom = Hornpout.
  • Bobber, worm, slow current.
  • Sherbert (Pink & Orange Glitter) Powerbait.

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • swedish pimp

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Popper

Blade Bait Check Prices

  • Chatterbait
  • Gold PK Lure PK Flutter Fish. Awesome lure.
  • Daredevil

Grub Check Prices

  • Yamamoto 5" Curly Tail Grub - watermelon with red flakes.
  • Yamamoto 5" Double Curly Tail Grub, Green with Red Flakes
    Also caught on KVD 5" Caffeine Shad Paddle Tail Swimbait

Flies Check Prices

  • Fished a wooly bugger with a casting bubble

Live Baits Check Prices

  • Dough Ball

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
  • Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.

Other Check Prices

  • 2 fish were caught with a Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook and worm.
    One was caught on a #6 hook and floating orange Powerbait "Trout Nibbles".
    All were caught mid-water, on the retrieve.
  • My buddy used a small crank bait. I used a Neon Yellow rooster tail spinner.
  • Feed corn and dat food were on the menu. We also tried chick peas, canned corn, luncheon meat, a coupld of pack/dough baits.

    We chummed a mix or bread crumb, hemp meal, pineapple soda and other such ingredients.

  • We had many things on hand, oatmeal, boilies, chick peas, feed corn, birdseed and grits based pack/method mixes, dog food, maple peas...

    In the end most fish were caught on Chick peas, followed by Dat food (strawberry) with one on Simon's pineapple birdseed "cake" boilie.
  • Oatmeal is the bait of choice from the locals. Simon and I also brought feed corn, boilies, chick peas, a few dough baits and a grits based pack bait.

    all action was from our Dat food boilies ( pineapple and strawberry) and the grits based pack bait. Oatmeal produced one good run, and a few nibbles.

  • Bread Balls and Canned Corn
  • We used Chartreuse Powerbait Nuggets with a 3/4 ounce weight.
  • We used chartreuse Powerbait nuggets with 3/4 oz. weights.
  • Power Bait, yellow. Used on #12 treble hook.
  • a mixture of ice tips using minnows , power eggs( can't tell you the color) and a mixture of lures .....

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